1985 (Blu-ray)
In another time, at another place…
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: December 18, 2018
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: Wolfe Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Cory Michael Smith, Virginia Madsen, Michael Chiklis & Jamie Chung | |
| Performer: | Ryan Piers Williams | |
| Directed by | Yen Tan | |
| Screenplay by | Yen Tan |
Entertainment Reviews:
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3.5 stars out of 4 -- A sensitive drama that slowly builds in power, 1985 feels like a missing minor classic from the decade that preceded the rise of the so-called New Queer Cinema...
RogerEbert.com
Tan stresses the tragic dimension of the story, but also its ordinariness. It's a tale of a boy and his family that could be played out in any American town, in 1985 or today.
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Australian Financial Review
Rating: 7/10 --
...marked by beautiful black and white cinematography, quietly moving performances and a sustained mood of tenderness and terrible pain.
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Adelaide Review
Rating: 4/5 --
It's a beautifully acted film. In the dark days of the epidemic it would surely have been impossible to make a drama so balanced, so compassionately attuned to everyone's feelings.
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Guardian
Rating: 4/5 --
The dark inky frames are full of shadows and dread. Yet the narrative, and Adrian's journey, is always leavened with quiet compassion.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 4/5 --
Writer-director Yen Tan, expanding a same-subject short film, takes his tale slowly, letting the drama breathe and the cast essay "being" rather than "acting".
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Financial Times
Rating: 4/5 --
What really distinguishes the film is that it gets deep inside this broken family without becoming histrionic or accusatory. Tan avoids any hint of sentimentality, concentrating on the pain instead.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Product Description:
Director/co-writer Yen Tan's domestic drama revolves around Adrian (Cory Michael Smith) - a HIV+ closeted gay man - and his struggle to come out to his Bible belt family during the AIDS crisis. After spending three years in New York, he returns to Fort Worth, Texas, over Christmas to come clean to his religious parents, his younger brother, and his ex-girlfriend (Jamie Chung).
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